The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 6, 1919, Page 12

THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1919, TINE’S IDEA OF ABOLISHING MONEY IS PRE-HISTORIC PLAN | BY RICHARD srrLANE Noted Funny Weiter Economies and Special | Contributor to The Daily Star. Money, it has been said, is the of all evil. Therefore, in cur. the {Mls from which Russia suf J fers, Lenine proposes to abolish His method has the merit of nov sity, He plans to make money so > plentiful that it will be worthless. ‘The printing presses are busy turn _ ing out paper roubles as fast as men &fd mechanics can print them Other governments have made ‘their money valueless, but not de Viberately, Of comparatively recent _ time you could buy a $10 bill of one the Mexican governments for one gent and @ $100 note for a nickel Se In the closing days of the Conte $5,000 in paper money 2 i paid for a pair of boots and, at the seller of the of it, >) MAKE PRODUCTION iE MEASURE OF REWARD When Lenine has flooded boots got the ae Russia | | HIRES FINS | | with money so that Its debasement | makes it ridiculous he plans to in-| troduce the communistic ideal of val uation the production of the worker being the standard, the basis, on which all goods are to be measured Land, mills, shops, everything being held in common, he intends each worker shall be entit to credit or reward according to his product. For a day's work a laborer in the field in the f pry, im the office shall have the equivalent In credit to ob tain what b munistic sires from the com For examp! Ifa day's work ix establiehed as being the equivalent of ten points the worker may get from any govern mont store articles aggregating in value ten points. If he takes artt cles of «a value of five points there will remain to bis eredit five points. All prices are to be regulated by the government. No one is to be paid more for a day's work than another person unless production is greater, A foreman or superintend ent is to be rated the same an the laborer and receive the same reward. All persons are to be equal, Only those who are slothful or who fall behind the established amount of a Jay's work are to receive less than the common rate of pay or credit It is the belief of Lenine that this nystem will stifle greed and end the exploitation of the common man by the clever or the crafty man and prevent the accumulation of power or wealth In the hands of the few TERS TO WORK OUT HIS SCHEME Believing the end justifies the means, he is employing the most skiliful of accountants and the most experienced of actuaries to work out the system by whieh it is to be op- erated. These men are not of the Rolshevist, but of the bourgolse clans jand their compensation, it is said, is not based on the communistic rate but the old and abhorred one of pay store his day uel’ ili J] —it plays ALL records —wonderful tone; —superior construc- tion; —artistic models; —guaranteed by a world-famous man- ufacturer whose guaranty means more than a “scrap of paper.” Avenue—Between University and Seneca. Phone Main 3139, ing a man according to his What chance has such » plan | as that of Lonine for success? NONE! It is not new. It dates back to pre-historic time before money, as we know money, was know nd when men bartered things wh they had a surplus, such as the skins of animals, for the things other men had and which they craved or of which they had use, Ti oe the method crude had to be improved, Something had to be introduced that would be a medium of valuation not only be tween one man and but be tween all token—« metal token—which we call money, came into use. And later, when man, in his enterprise, needed more in some undertaking than he had me y to purchase, he good name or his reputation and so there came the Institution we term! it Money, actual money metal. Gold, being rare, has been held in high esteem. Silver more plentiful, Ie rated lower, Today, if we had to depend upon metallic money alone in the tran saction of the world’s affairy, there would be. chaos. In all the world there is only $9,000,000,000 of coined gold or gold in bara. The amount of | silver coined or In piga is but $3 000,000,000. So, it is that if the coin or markers were to be used exclu nively there would not be enough in the world to pay for much more than one-half of the farm products of America alone this year of 1919 COMMUNISM WON'T WORK IN ONE COUNTRY ALONE The world’s business is conducted on credit. Superimposed on the relatively «mall base of gold and |ativer is & towering structure of promise—a pledge in evidence of | whieh a piece of paper is given, That | is the bank note, the bill of ex change, the mortgage and all the) ramified forma of indebtedness. Lenine says the world must be wholly communistic or wholly non ommunistic. In other words, one communistic government cannot stand. He is right. For hie plan| to have chance of success, all gov-| erpments must do he Is intending | Russia shall do Will they do it? No sane person would answer affirmatively If the experiment of comman- iam ever is to be tried out in a big way it probably is well the experiment should be made now and in Russia. No great nation offers such advantages to the communjst and no man has a better opportunity than Lenine. He realizes this fact. He mays Rus sia i# agricultural and its wealth tn of the earth, not of the fhetory. He prcposes that Russia shall feed Eur. | ope and Europe shall furnish to Russia the goods Russia requires. | He has started to restore the agri cultural wealth of Rursia by increas |ing the production per acre = In |order to do this he has taken over | the mammoth agricultural imple | ment plants. Few Americans appre |eiate that Russia is far ahead of |any other European country in thin deyartment. The International Har- | vestor company has eight big estab | lt? © Russia. Ite Moscow plant Is as big almort as ite biggest jim America. Last year it charged off | to profit and tons the $21,000,000 its Russian plants had cost. Horses and cattle are scarce tn/ Russia today owing to the war. Le ning means to make the machine to | do work of the farm. He means| also to Increase the production of wheat greatly thereby. Russia in normal times averaged nine bushels | to the acre, Recently it has fallen | to five b hels to the nere. It In! possible to Increase production to/ 15 bushels within a few years, | MEANS BRINGING ALL MEN TO A VERY LOW LEVEL The richeat farm tand tn Europe ia in the Ukraine. The sugar pro. duction there could supply moat of Burope if the disorder ended and men got back to work. The Caucasus is an agricultural wonderland, but ts as backward as Africa. Parts of Siberia offer large ovportunity agri culturally and otherwise, In his scheme of building Russia | up from the foundation of the facm Lenine in wise but otherwise his project in y. It can bring noth jing but chaos. It means the bring ing of all men to one level—a very low level. It means death to enter. prise, initiative, development. It means suppression to ambition and | almost to aspiration. It means turn | | talents | cnother, being Ing back the world to the age of | erudity. Russia has the Teputation hed being FLU SPREADING | INTO FAR NORTH Hundreds of Natives Strick- en; Many Are Dying Influenza fs spreading Into the} realms of the Far North | According to reports in| attic, 100 natives of Bristol Bay | and Unalaska have died of infly rae | within the last 10 days. | srams bearing the information fare heen received from Dr. L. H | | French, in charge of hospitals for| |natives on Nushagak bay, at the loffice of W. T. Lopp, chief ‘the Alaska division of the bureau | of education, with offices in Se attle One hundred children hale been eft orphans in the past two weeks at Nushagak, where a large canvas | |house has been erected to house ithe youngsters, | | At Unalaska, practically all gov ernment officials, including the Jerators and their families at | wireless station, have been stricken} with the disease | HERE’S CHOIR SINGER WITH SONG RECORD) Special to The Star by the N. 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What op-| purchase of stock and machinery portunity for graft this newold sys-| that's how well Australia thinks tem would afford of her returning fighting “mee Lenine says Russa will be a work | éneh 2 cllttee te man’s paradise. Anyone who wishes | _ Her sebe se iaet aad aad dee to enter this paradise should Fo peer Send tre British au- at once to avoid the rush thorities agree in this. A land of 182,000,000 persons with out money, all to start as equ: The provisions of land under this cheme, the construction of rail remain as equals, with receive more compensation th ways and roads to open it up and ordinary worker and to purchase|the advances for stock and ma only by the product of hin day's|chinery are calculated to require work: with all factories, farms, stores |an outlay of $200,000,000. and utilities owned in common. that | Resides this land program in the Utopia Lenine holds out to| The government will expend Poosibly some persons who believe ‘Doctor| “Prescribes money is the root of all evil would | prefer to stiek around where the 'D. D. D. for Banker NJ. Rowers, Cashier First Na ik. Tracy City, Tenn, ‘The worst case of Kesema 1 believe sas jenced Was setcing my dor Marvelous relief very first application Anyone suffering from trouble— mild or sevore—ahould investigaia at once the wrerts of DD. D. Try it today. 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